climlab

climlab is a flexible engine for process-oriented climate modeling. It operates on the concept of a model as a collection of individual, interacting processes. The core is a base class called Process, which can host an arbitrarily complex tree of sub-processes, each also a sub-class of Process. This design allows any climate process—be it radiative, dynamical, physical, turbulent, convective, or chemical—to be simulated independently or as part of a larger, more intricate model.

New model classes can be easily defined and run interactively by assembling an appropriate collection of sub-processes. The package currently provides out-of-the-box support and documented examples for various models. These include radiative and radiative-convective column models, which incorporate several radiation schemes such as RRTMG.